An Eventful Week

An Eventful Week

Well this week has been quite interesting with its fair share of ups and downs so I’ll start with the positive!

My Mom and I decided to go on a walk in the beautiful back roads that link to our house, and five minutes into the walk we see a big dead bat! But then another twenty minutes down the road we see this HUGE dead snake! Thank goodness it was dead or I think I might’ve been J (I don’t know why I put this in the positive category!)

Oh and this week I also discovered that no one has hair here! Even though there are ladies with super long braided hair, but it’s all fake! They asked if we put Vaseline in our hair so it won’t snap because apparently their hair isn’t strong enough to continue growing so some ladies put Vaseline in to strengthen it but even then they can get it about shoulder length! So if the hair is longer than a pixie it’s a wig!

We got to go to a big tourist market and look around the shops…but after you’ve been in one you’ve seen all them J I have a feeling if we went there a couple days before departure it would’ve been a lot cooler, but because I have access to all that stuff everyday it’s not as exciting J

This week was the last of school so the roads and all have just been hectic because each school (and there’s a LOT of schools) are having their end of the year performance. Well we were invited to attend Simbwas Primary school performance. So I figured we’d just go there, watch the show and leave…nope. We get there and they’re getting Mom dressed up in their traditional outfits…and as we go to take our seats they announce “Here comes Miss Tanya!” and everybody starts clapping and she takes her seat in a freaking throne in the front and center! Then they had several other chairs set up beside her for us to sit on. Felt like a flipping celebrity! Then they bring us drinks and then (the best part), they ask Mom to give a speech! So Mom goes up there and gives a speech, and then hands out the certificates to the graduating kids – they’re bout 4 years old? And through all my attempts to stay hidden they called me up to hand out some presents to the kids. I’m just so thankful I wasn’t asked to say something!

So on the negative side of things…

After we went to the market we went to paint the Bomgi sign on Simbwas house – yes they’re so generous they let you paint a big blue Bomgi sign right on their house (it actually looks really good!) Well it’s about maybe 2pm and Corey grabs the car keys to open the paint cans, and as he’s popping it open the key snaps in half! Like literally in half. So we’re all like “Oh crap.” (and the can was still closed.) So we decided to call Simbwa and see if he knows anyone who can help but of course the phone lines are down! 20 minutes it starts working again, but Simbwas at a funeral so he won’t answer his phone! So we called Kyle and he came and picked Corey and Liam up on his Boda Boda, and then both boys came up to rescue Mom, Emma and myself. So I broke my vow that I wouldn’t ride a Boda Boda, and most certainly wasn’t planning on being squished between Kyle and Emma. It was a pretty nerve racking experience especially because there was TONS of traffic and I didn’t have a helmet J

This didn’t have this week, just a couple days after it ended and considering I never Internet I’ll just add it in.

Corey has been feeling under the weather quite a couple times, at least once a week. But when I say under the weather I mean unable to move, headaches and throwing up, pretty brutal if you get sick here. Well we’re all expecting it to be malaria or dangy fever because he has all the symptoms – including a rash. Anyways last night while I’m having a fantastic sleep Corey gets sent to the hospital, gets his blood tested…finds out his allergic to the malaria pills!

So you’ll never guess what season it is…Grasshopper! EVERYWHERE you look there’s grasshoppers! When you shake the branch of a tree it looks like it’s snowing…but it’s grasshoppers! It’s pretty nasty. And they’re pretty dumb to because they’ll fly right into you…and they bite, and they make a really annoying sound, like a fuzzy radio. Oh Uganda you are glorious!

Now to end this exciting week I had probably one of the worst experiences I’ve had since being here. We had a big problem with fruit flies when we got here, so we put up those really sticky/sappy things that the flies get stuck on. And holy cow are they sticky! Even if your hands just press against it you struggle to get it off. Well I was leaning against the wall beside one of the sticky things, and I was just watching the T.V when I see this brown thing dangling beside my hair and just flip out!! I start screaming and fall to the ground and yell at Emma “What the heck is in my hair!” and I’m flinging my hair trying to get it…not realizing it’s that delicious sticky sappy stuff! So she grabs the knob at the end and starts to pull it and I can just hear the hair snapping…and soon the knob snaps off to! So after a very painful two minutes of tearing my hair out I attempt to wash out the sap. I held my hair in vinegar until my face stung, then just scrubbed and scrubbed with conditioner and had the shower on jet attempting to get this off. It was just a mess. But after a very long and painful brushing session it was almost back to normal. Though I think I tore a good chunk of hair out! Very painful experience, and of course it had to happen to the person with the most hair!

Well that’s it for now, all these are kind of outdated and none are in order anymore because I just upload them whenever I have Internet. Oh boy do I miss that golden thing J

Cheers,

Savannah